Pursuing the telescope has taken more than 10 years, Douglas Ing, an attorney representing the telescope project, told the land board during final arguments on Sept. 20. "Telescope after telescope after telescope, you failed." So far, $3.5 million has been paid into the educational fund, even while the project's construction permit was invalid. The Gemini Telescope, right, and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea near Hilo, Hawaii. Two years later, opponents requested so-called contested-case hearings before the land board, which approved the construction permit.

Source: CBC News September 28, 2017 22:07 UTC